For weeks, we've shared updates about our 2025 Seafood Conference - highlighting the speakers and sessions you won't want to miss. But there's one essential element we haven't stressed enough: the power of conference to unite people across the seafood industry, here in New Zealand and globally too.
In many ways, our industry is more united than ever.
Earlier this year, with the proposed amendments to the Fisheries Act, we saw over 300 submissions in support of the changes - very likely a record for our industry. This was no accident. It was due to people and organisations in our sector raising their voices, encouraging others, and rallying behind a shared vision. Remember when Storm Stanley, Chair of the Pāua Industry Council, wrote in The Update about what those amendments meant for the pāua industry? That's the kind of unity we need - and it's happening.
